employment protection pursued in the UK over the last three decades and within the European Union more recently. It does so by … comparing the UK's manufacturing labour productivity performance with those of three countries - France, Germany and Sweden … - that possess more stringent employment protection laws. The findings reveal that while productivity growth in the UK was …

employment primarily along a lowskill (or low 'match-quality') dimension. In such a case, job creation would serve to lower …) growth using annual data on 389 4-digit U.S. manufacturing industries over the period 1974-1993. As expected, the results …